Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us wrote:
- Is fillfactor useful for hash and gist indexes?
I think hash does not need it, but gist might need it.
Not sure. We don't know what type of index a GIST will be so we have no
way of knowing. I am thinking we can implement just btree now
ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us wrote:
- Is fillfactor useful for hash and gist indexes?
I think hash does not need it, but gist might need it.
Not sure. We don't know what type of index a GIST will be so we have no
way of knowing. I am thinking
ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
Hi Hackers,
I'm trying the following TODO item:
[Indexes]
- Add fillfactor to control reserved free space during index creation
I have already made an patch and it seemed to work well.
Great.
And now, I need advice on some issues.
- Is it appropriate
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
- Should indexes remember their fillfactors when they are created?
The last fillfactors will be used on next reindex.
They should remember, for sure, and REINDEX should use it. It think
this is similar to the ALTER TABLE ALTER [ COLUMN ] ... SET
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
- Should indexes remember their fillfactors when they are created?
The last fillfactors will be used on next reindex.
They should remember, for sure, and REINDEX should use it. It think
this is similar to the ALTER TABLE
If you want it to be dumped by pg_dump (which is debatable IMHO) then
it MUST NOT be a syntax extension, it has to be driven by a GUC
variable, else we have compatibility problems with the dumps. We just
went through this with WITH/WITHOUT OIDS.
Compatibility problems? CREATE INDEX isn't an
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Compatibility problems? CREATE INDEX isn't an SQL standard command is it?
No, but it'll cause unnecessary cross-version compatibility issues for
us.
regards, tom lane
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Tom Lane wrote:
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Compatibility problems? CREATE INDEX isn't an SQL standard command is it?
No, but it'll cause unnecessary cross-version compatibility issues for
us.
It is true it isn't SQL standard, but I think our CREATE INDEX syntax
Hi Hackers,
I'm trying the following TODO item:
[Indexes]
- Add fillfactor to control reserved free space during index creation
I have already made an patch and it seemed to work well.
$ ./pgbench -i -s 10
# select relpages from pg_class where relname = 'accounts_pkey';
relpages |
